NOW Foods Supplements, Magnesium Citrate Pure Powder, Enzyme Function*, Nervous System Support*, 8-Ounce

I don't tend to write a lot of reviews, but I feel strongly enough about this one to take the time. I have worked hard to take care of myself, but often don't feel the way I think I should. I have a history of migraines the past 4 years, allergies and I have always felt difficulty with breathing during intense exercise but now have confirmed asthma as a diagnosis. I have had issues with muscle tightness, muscle cramps, occasional restless leg syndrome, and have always had quite a bit of anxiousness or anxiety. If things didn't go perfect, I would start panicking. If someone did something wrong or that I didn't like, on the outside I would be angry but inside totally enraged, even if it wasn't necessarily a large matter. I have been a competitive athlete and I had plenty of matches where I had disappointing losses against weaker players, or close matches that I lost, or even matches where I had multiple match points and couldn't pull through, all either being due to anxiousness before or during the match, or difficulty breathing, or the lack of ability to keep calm and concentrate. I think this over time has contributed to a much more negative disposition, a viscous cycle. Lately since I have made some diet changes which include stopping the consumption of sugar, I have been somewhat calmer and lost weight but I have also had constipation issues for some reason. I generally find my energy levels to be low, a nap during the day has never been difficult or unwelcome. I read about magnesium a couple years ago and I kept reading articles saying that trans-dermal was the best way to absorb magnesium quickly. I tried a magnesium that is supposed to absorb well through the skin, and I could never say I felt better, and it was uncomfortable spraying a cold spray and it would be slimy on, itchy as it dried and then sticky after drying. It was ineffective and inconvenient. I recently read again in looking for a "natural cure for asthma" about magnesium. I read it helped with asthma, which led me to read more again. I decided to try an oral form of magnesium. I pretty much only go for NOW products for supplements, and have bought quite a few different supplements over time. I find NOW products to be of very high quality for the price, which is usually also the lowest. I think this product is a great price, particularly in the powder form. The taste is minimally sour, really no big deal. I have only had it for about a week now, so it is still early, and my understanding is a magnesium deficiency takes time to bring up. For the asthma, I am taking a prescription now to control it so I don't know how it is with just magnesium, but I can't imagine it could hurt. I am still somewhat constipated unless I decide to take a bit too much magnesium, then that's no problem. Mentally I am finding myself more calm in stressful situations, and if I don't do well at something, I am not nearly as distraught, and if anything I come out of it feeling more determined to do better next time. Things that go wrong are not bothering me the same way either. Its hard to believe, because I feel I am just handling it better because its not as big of a deal as the other times, but really even the small things were a big deal to me before. My muscles feel so much calmer. As I type this, I feel a pleasant tingle in my lower legs and have felt it for a few days despite having done some really hard physical training. In the past I would be really sore and achy right now. My energy levels are still not great, and I don't find the magnesium helping me sleep better (I have always generally slept pretty well, but have found it maybe even more difficult getting to sleep late at night than before). I do feel better waking up than I used to though. There are a number of positive reviews on here about this product, enough to help anyone looking for information to decide, but I sometimes wonder if those reviews are real or not, and I think that for many products I use that I don't necessarily feel a lot of benefits from, I should write something thorough and real about a product that I think is helping me more than any other supplement I have tried with regards to a general feeling of well being. For $6 for a 6 month supply, I don't think you can go wrong with this one.

Good stuff. It sure helps constipation.

I emailed NOW to find out what was up with this obviously different mag. citrate formula and got an answer, sent Wednesday, September 05, 2018, which I will share verbatim with you: "In the spring of 2017 we changed to a more fully reacted magnesium citrate (anhydrous form). This is better absorbed but, the taste is less tart due to containing less free citric acid, as this new version is tightly molecularly bound to the magnesium. The original formula contained more free magnesium oxide which was unbound to the citrate molecule. We could not in good conscience continue offering an inferior partially bound product as "magnesium citrate" when a better raw material source was available. Thank you, NOW Foods Product Info" Couple of things to add. - This is NOT sodium picosulfate as another reviewer theorized. That's a stimlant laxative, this is an osmotic laxative. This is gentler and safer. Osmotic laxatives work by increasing the amount of water secreted within the intestines resulting in softer stools. - I recommend searching for the article from Healthline entitled: "How to Use Magnesium Citrate for Constipation" if this is indeed what you are using this product for. - If you use magnesium for relaxation, and perhaps the citrate form gives you too much, shall we say, movement... I suggest magnesium glycinate. This is a great article:"Magnesium: Meet the Most Powerful Relaxation Mineral Available" by Dr. Hyman - I do not have an issue with this product clumping when I add 1/2 - 1 teaspoon to 6 - 8oz of warm water. - I do not have an issue with the taste since I added more water. It has virtually no taste now. - I like the Bulk Supplements brand of mag citrate as well, but I have to use more of it, it is very sandy and it's not as effective for me as this brand. In conclusion. A lot of us long time fans of this product were freaked out by the change in formula. The taste and clumping made us all think something was wrong. Can't understand why NOW never responded to all the recent bad reviews and corrected the misinformation being propagated here, especially when reviews for the old formula were so positive, but whatever. Anyway, it's the same great product, even more effective in my opinion. NOW: I'm ready to receive my lifetime supply of Mag. Citrate for helping drive up your sales. ;-)

I really like the NOW brand Magnesium Citrate Powder, I have been using it for years. I like to use supplements in powder or liquid form as much as possible because my stomach has problems breaking things down and digesting them. This helps with muscle spasms, and it also helps keep my bowels regular. I take one teaspoon every morning and it works very well for me. The reason for giving it only 4 stars is because THIS bottle that I received is more granulated than powder. I have used this product for years and I go through about 6 bottles a year, every bottle I have purchased from our local health store has always been powdery and it dissolves very well in warm water. But THIS bottle is NOT powdery, it is granulated like salt, and it DOES NOT dissolve, no matter how much I stir it. It's just one big lump in the bottom of my glass. I still take it because I paid for it and I need magnesium, but I probably won't be buying it from Amazon again. I bought it on Amazon because it was several dollars cheaper. However, since the quality from Amazon is so poor I will be buying it from my local health store in the future.

I've been using this product for the last two months to deal with the dull ache I've been getting in my hips during the night. I noticed a huge difference 2 hours after taking the first initial dose! I tried using Advil in the past, and it didnt do any good. It is very sour, but I expected that since its counter-ion is citrate. I just mix it with juice and it takes the sour edge off. Additional bonus benefits: 1. Chronic constipation - I've had issues with this since I was a child, and this is the ONLY product that I could take on a regular long-term basis that didnt give me any nasty side effects. No daily magical amount of fiber and water ever helped with this situation, and more often than not made it worse. I am finally regular! 2. Heart palpitations - I suffer from GAD (General Anxiety Disorder), and would frequently get palpitations. This product would actually help stop my heart from racing by making me relax. Better and healthier than taking a benzo! 3. Bipolar disorder - A family member has this disorder, and he benefits greatly by having this supplement in his diet due to the fact it has a similar effect related to lithium. Make sure to not take any form of lithium at the same time you take this supplement though. They both compete for the same receptor sites, and you wont get the full benefit of both these products. You need to take this product 2 hours before or after you take your lithium dosage.

I purchased this product for the express purpose as a magnesium supplement as part of my anti-arteriosclerosis nutritional protocol. At first, I was very disappointed that it didn't have the vastly superior water solubility over magnesium oxide that various web articles stated that it would have. It's water solubility was supposed to be "good". However I soon discovered after receiving it that it is practically insoluble in water. I measured a O.04 gram qty of this powder, and was unable to fully dissolve it in 1 U.S. cup of Brita filtered tap water, despite vigorous agitation with reversing motion of a wire wisk. The vessel was a clear glass coffee/tea mug. Moreover, our municipal water supply is very soft in comparison to other sources (former residences, hotel rooms, homes of friends and family, etc.). If it cannot be dissolved, then the body's GI tract will be unable to absorb it. Eventually I discovered that If I heated 1 U.S. Tbs apple cider vinegar plus 1 U.S. cup water to at least 140 degF, then I could dissolve no more than 5/8 U.S. tsp of this powder. By my calculations, that translates to about 394 mg of elemental magnesium in solution. After taking a daily dose of that 5/8 tsp dissolved in vinegar for a couple days, it dawned on me that it did not have any effect at all on my defecation. For me, that's good, because I don't have a constpation problem. At that point, I wondered not only why it lacks the good water solubility claimed, but also why it didn't appear to be functioning as a laxative either. Then I remembered having purchased bottles of aqueous magnesium citrate at the drug store for my aged father during the final year of his life. That's when I suspected that this product could not possibly be magnesium citrate. So I looked up magnesium citrate at Wikipedia and learned that anhydrous TRIMAGNESIUM citrate powder is commonly and erroneously marketed as "magnesium citrate". The two substances have markedly different properties. True magnesium citrate (the laxative) does in fact have good water solubility: 20 grams per 100 ml. That explains the aqueous form, which can be found bottled at drug stores. Conversely, trimagnesium citrate is poorly soluble in water, nor is it a laxative. However this trimagnesium citrate powder is far more useful as a supplemental nutritional source of magnesium than is true magnesium citrate. Obviously one would not want a laxative side effect from any nutritional supplement. Moreover, this product is a more concentrated source of elemental magnesium than is true calcium citrate (16% vs 11%). The only caveat is that this product cannot be dissolved in water; you must either predissolve it in a hot vinegar solution or take it concomitantly with a big enough meal that produces adequate stomach acidity in order to dissolve a dose of it. I have no problem predissolving the labeled dose (1/2 tsp) in such a small amount of hot apple cider vinegar before taking it. It appears to dissolve without leaving any mysterious foreign matter, so its purity is at least visibly acceptable enough for me. I would have given this product an Amazon rating of 5 stars had NOW Foods properly labeled it. Mislabeling any type of ingestable product is a HUGE no-no, and is particularly reprehensible for a health product being marketed as a nutritional supplement. Got that, NOW Foods???

It's good magnesium citrate & turns warm when sampling in your mouth!!!!

Mix it with something that will keep it from clumping in your liquid -- like psyllium or protein powder. Mix it together BEFORE adding it to the liquid. It needs this because it is, actually, Mag Citrate, not something else pretending to be Magnesium Citrate (you can't trust labels anymore).

It isn't pure. It contains a silica anti-caking additive that made me very sick. Not as advertised.

This stuff is great. Now, I'll give you guys a few guidelines to use this properly. First, don't ever take too much of it, when it comes to magnesium, err on the side of less of it than more of it. Mainly because it doesn't just relax the mood, it relaxes all parts of your body. ALL PARTS. If after taking this you don't want to spend the next hour in the toilet, just take a little bit. Doesn't have to be taken all at once in a day, Take 3 mini doses. Second, it tastes like Nimbu pani. Its pretty good actually, I like the taste. You might have to finish the whole glass of water, then refill it a little to consume the rest of it. Third, taking it with meals is best. Because your body won't solely focus on burning this down and suddenly you feel the effects. What you want is for the thing to smoothly get in your system and feel the effects for a long time. Fourth, Magnesium uses up the potassium in your body. So if you feel like you're feeling mild cramps or something, just get some K.Just google "Potassium food sources" and consume those, though magnesium is EXTREMELY SAFE. This is absolutely great, and it is awesome for even when you have headaches. You will feel the headache intensity go down immediately. It won't eliminate the headache, but that's because its job is to relax you, not to eliminate any diseases. I just found the powder to be way cheaper than the capsules so I bought it, and I'm quite happy with the purchase.

I bought this product expecting a lemon flavor. While it likely functions as intended, I was hoping for it to taste better.

For me, it was difficult to take as a powder, prefer a capsule.

This is a great product,I have ordered it after reading the book Magnesium Miracle and it has changed my life.my body suddenly works so much better,I have more energy as magnesium is necessary for cells to create ATP and it really works I cannot recommend it enough!!!!